CJ CheilJedang serves up K-food for Qatar World Cup fans
South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. said on Tuesday it is operating a Korean food section within the Qatar World Cup’s fan zone, mana...
BTS Jin's solo debut album sells over 1 mn copies in 16 days
"The Astronaut," the first solo album of K-pop megaband BTS member Jin, has sold over 1 million copies in the 16 days since its launch.Released on O...
Promising K-startups to present B2B transition strategies at Geeks Show Up
Come this Thursday, 10 select startups will duke it to prove their business-to-business (B2B) model has the best chance of success. The start...
Lotte Mart bulks up in SE Asia to make up for China failure
Indonesia was the destination for Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin’s first overseas business trip in August, after being granted a special p...
Vietnamese MZers ensnared by K-beauty, K-fashion, K-everything
HANOI – Vietnam’s young people are avid fans of Korean culture, collectively known as Hallyu. Trang, a 21-year-old college student, is o...
Korea must embrace diversity to sustain K-culture: Sam Richards
When Penn State University sociology professor Sam Richards introduced Korean pop culture into his lectures three years ago, he compared its power t...
CJ ENM’s TVing looks beyond Korea with Yonder, other K-drama series
South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co.’s over-the-top streaming platform TVing is taking its original sci-fi drama series Beyond the...
K-pop megaband BTS to serve military duty, agency says
Members of K-pop boy band BTS will fulfill South Korea’s national military duty, starting with its oldest member Jin, their agency HYBE Co. an...
Korean bio suffers as weak won lifts global clinical trial costs
South Korean biopharmaceutical firms are facing challenges in clinical trials overseas alongside the rising Korean won to the US dollar exchange rat...
K-pop giant SM up against Align Partner's shareholder activism
South Korea’s Align Partners Capital Management is intensifying its shareholder activism against K-pop music label giant SM Entertainment Co.,...
Naver Cloud seeks win-win strategy with K-startups in overseas market
NEW YORK – The chief executive officer of Naver Cloud Park Won-ki said that if South Korean startups using the company’s cloud services ...
Kakao to challenge Naver, Apple for offline payment services
South Korea’s largest mobile payment app KakaoPay has bought a stake in the country’s No. 1 electronic payment system provider, accordin...
Internet lender K Bank gets green light for IPO
South Korea’s first internet-only lender K Bank on Tuesday received preliminary approval from the Korea Exchange to go public on the country&r...
SM mulls ending producer contract with founder Lee Soo-man's firm
SM Entertainment Co. announced Thursday it is considering terminating the production contract with Like Planning, wholly owned by its founder Lee So...
SK Telecom-led consortium to commercialize air taxis on Jeju Island
Come 2025, visitors to South Korea’s resort island of Jeju will be able to hail air taxis while there – thanks to special air routes ded...
LG Uplus' K-pop idol platform goes global via smart TVs
Fans of K-pop idols such as boyband sensation BTS and girl group Blackpink will be able to enjoy their live performances through smart TVs at home a...
K-pop, Toyota’s platform for marketing in the US
LOS ANGELES -- Toyota Motor Corp., the top global automaker, showcased its sports cars – the GR86 and the GR Supra – at the Los Angeles ...
China's high entry barriers for Korean films, dramas
“Oh! My Gran” was the only South Korean movie to hit the big screen in China in the past year. It was also the first Korean film to be p...
K-chicken chain BB.Q foresees stores quadrupling in N.America
Gourmands in North America will be able to enjoy South Korean fried chicken more conveniently as BB.Q Chicken, the country’s leading franchise...
K-bio firms embrace gene therapy CDMO as Samsung looks the other way
South Korea’s major biopharmaceutical companies are rapidly embracing the cell and gene therapy business under a contract drug-making mechanis...
China's lockdown slams Korean beauty giants' Q2 earnings
South Korea’s two major cosmetics firms, Amorepacific Corp. and LG H&H Co., posted their second-quarter earnings heavily impacted by Chi...
Disney+ to run two BTS shows in HYBE's 1st global content collaboration
HYBE Co., the K-pop label best known for BTS, signed an agreement with Walt Disney Company in its first collaboration with an international content ...
Blackpink to hold K-pop’s first in-game concert on PUBG mobile game
Blackpink, the female K-pop idol group, will hold an in-game concert, the first such event by Korean pop artists, in collaboration with Krafton Inc....
YG's share price surges 6.3% on news of Blackpink’s album release, concert
Shares of major K-pop label YG Entertainment Inc. finished Wednesday's trade 6% higher at 48,950 won ($37.52) a share, on news of Blackpink’s ...
Online lender K Bank revs up for IPO in Nov on surging net profit
K Bank submitted a preliminary assessment request to the Korea Stock Exchange on Thursday, the first step to an initial public offering. The on...
Korean startups rely on word-of-mouth marketing for overseas penetration
Thanks to what some economists dub a borderless economy, more South Korean startups than ever before are looking beyond the peninsula. Seoul-ba...
K-beauty sales see sharp drop at China's major shopping event
South Korean cosmetics giants failed to win over Chinese consumers at the 618 Shopping Festival, one of the largest online annual shopping events in...
K-beauty makers focus on US as China business slows
South Korea’s major cosmetics makers are trying to lure more customers in North America as the K-beauty boom has been weakening in China, the ...
BTS' Army, Blackpink's Blink power Korea fandom platforms
Army of BTS, Blink of Blackpink and other global fan clubs of the world’s K-pop stars are strengthening the fan engagement platform business o...
Why Samsung didn't join race for S.Korea's air taxi project
Samsung, a name seen everywhere in South Korea from apartment complexes to home appliances, is missing on the list of bidders for the country’...
